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tatty bojangles ([personal profile] apocalypsos) wrote2004-05-08 08:29 pm

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Your Disaster Movie Fate by miggy
Your Name
Your RoleHeir to billions
Your Memorable MomentDiscovering the approaching danger
Your Ultimate FateBeing rescued by your true love just before you die
The Disaster In QuestionA plague
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!


A plague, an heir to billions, and a true love. I could like that. Thanks for pointing this out, [livejournal.com profile] miggy. :)

Speaking of disasters, one of the trailers that came on before the movie today was for The Day After Tomorrow. *squees* I'm sorry, it's just ... this is my favorite movie genre here. Even if it sucks, I'll love it and hug it and name it George. And when IMDb had that poll about which summer movie you were most looking forward to, I picked this one. Yes, I'm still looking forward to Spider-Man 2 and Harry Potter and Troy and whatnot, but ... but ... everybody dies in this one! (Not everyone, but, well, you know what I mean.)

Also speaking of disasters, they showed the Catwoman trailer, too. As soon as it was over, everybody in the theater laughed, and not in a good way. Hee!

[identity profile] paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you lived closer we'd go see this and disaster movie bliss together. I LOVE disaster movies.

I knew Deep Impact would be a mawkish cloying tearfest, but c'mon. Comet hitting the earth! MORGAN FREEMAN AS PRESIDENT!

[identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the best things about this trailer is that wave hitting New York, 'cause all I thought was, "EEE! They're re-using my favorite part of Deep Impact!"

And Morgan Freeman as President was just perfect. One of the best screen presidents ever.

What's killing me everytime I see this trailer is just everything they do to New York, and if they do stuff to DC, I'll get the same reaction, because all I'll be able to think is, "Hey, I've been there! And now there are tornadoes and hurricanes and whatnot!"

Ooo, I really need May 28th to get here, like, yesterday.

[identity profile] paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh.

That's my least favourite part of Deep Impact.

I really hated for awhile that "it's not a global disaster movie unless they show the disaster having a go at New York!"

I'm from NY, born and raised, and I had this bug in my ear about NY being bashed on from well before 9-11 or the first attempt on the WTC [which was months before the third Die Hard came out].

I just think NY is not the only easily recognizable city in the world, and so they need to give other cities a chance to be horribly damaged in global disasters.

The Core, cheesy as it is in places, has my undying love for blowing up Rome and London, for instance.

And Armageddon has my love for blowing up Paris and Hong Kong.

[identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. Blowing up cities they don't know normally blow up is always a bonus in a disaster movie. Which is why I still kinda like Independence Day, of all things ... because admittedly they don't show it, but at one point they blew up Chicago and Atlanta. Ooo, and Moscow, but you didn't get to see that one, either.

With Deep Impact, I did have huge love for that wave. Mmm. Oceanic destruction. *happy sighs*

[identity profile] paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The Wave scene worked for me until Tea Leoni ruined it by going "...daddy!"

You dumb bint. You had your chance to get to safety in the helicopter [though you did selflessly give up your seat to save the baby of that horrible woman who dissed you all through the movie and even THEN tried to keep her baby with her so they could die in the waveshock together].

[identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
when i saw it they showed both of those plus white chicks (i must have raped kittens in another life because i see this unsightly trailer every weekend now) and something about an idiotic indian guy and an idiotic asian guy.

[identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I unfortunately have laughed at the White Chicks trailer, but I'm taking pills and seeing a therapist now.

AAAHHHHNNNN! TEH SKAREE!

[identity profile] paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com 2004-05-08 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
White Chicks horrifies and frightens me.

It has two of the least funny Wayans in it and horrific makeup effects. God. They did better on Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams in their "in drag" movies ...so who lost the bet here?